Cognitive and Behavioral Practice
September 5, 2011
M. Dutton, D. Bermúdez, A. Matas et al.
In this article, we consider the use of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) (Kabat-Zinn, 1991) as a community-based intervention to reduce health disparities for low-income, predominantly African American women with a history of intimate partner violence (IPV) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This article presents our rationale for using MBSR as an intervention with this...
Oxford University Press eBooks
September 2, 2011
Patricia Q. Campbell
This chapter describes the main introductory meditation classes offered at Friends of the Heart and Chandrakirti Centre in detail. It breaks the classes down into their various elements—rites of entry, opening prayers, meditation practice, talks or lectures, and so on—and discusses each as formalized or experiential means of learning that are ritualized to one degree or another. Comparisons are...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy
September 1, 2011
Molly Lannon Kenny, Staffan Elgelid, Bidyut Bose
1 citation
By July of 2000, I was done with my job as a clinician. Having worked for over six years as a speech-language pathologist at one of the country's largest HMOs, I felt burned out, turned off, and depleted. It wasn't that I didn't like the work—I did. In fact, I loved the opportunity to come into people's lives and help them with whatever life challenges brought them to my office. What I had...
Contemporary Clinical Trials
September 2011
Robin R Whitebird, Mary Jo Kreitzer, Beth A Lewis et al.
Caregivers for a family member with dementia experience chronic long-term stress that may benefit from new complementary therapies such as mindfulness-based stress reduction. Little is known however, about the challenges of recruiting and retaining family caregivers to research on mind-body based complementary therapies. Our pilot study is the first of its kind to successfully recruit...
Body image
September 2011
Pieternel Dijkstra, Dick P H Barelds
The present study examined the links between dispositional mindfulness, body comparison, and body satisfaction. It was expected that mindfulness would be associated with less body comparison and more body satisfaction. Two models were tested: one exploring body comparison as a mediator between mindfulness and body satisfaction and an alternative model exploring mindfulness as a mediator between...
Mindfulness
September 1, 2011
David S Black, Randye J Semple, Pallav Pokhrel et al.
We examined the interrelationships between higher-order cognitive functions-mindfulness, self-control, and working memory-that appear to be component processes that underlie executive function (EF) and their association with indicators of mental and behavioral health. Data were collected from first-year medical students attending a large private university in California (N=31) via a...
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics
September 1, 2011
Mindfulness-based stress reduction in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.
The American journal of gastroenterology
September 2011
Susan A Gaylord, Olafur S Palsson, Eric L Garland et al.
This prospective, randomized controlled trial explored the feasibility and efficacy of a group program of mindfulness training, a cognitive-behavioral technique, for women with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The technique involves training in intentionally attending to present-moment experience and non-judgmental awareness of body sensations and emotions. Seventy-five female IBS patients were...
Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
September 2011
Marieke K. van Vugt, Amishi P. Jha
We investigated whether mindfulness training (MT) influences information processing in a working memory task with complex visual stimuli. Participants were tested before (T1) and after (T2) participation in an intensive one-month MT retreat, and their performance was compared with that of an age- and education-matched control group. Accuracy did not differ across groups at either time point....
BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care
September 1, 2011
Elizabeth Baines
1 citation
Introduction Mindfulness Meditation involves paying attention to our mind and body moment by moment, being aware of what arises without judgement. Experience and evaluation demonstrated that some patients receiving one to one mindfulness meditation failed to achieve their identified goals due to difficulty in committing to regular meditation practice when at home. They felt the traditional...